Emulator Composite.book - Creative

13 - Appendix
The Emulator X File Converter
To Use the File Converter:
1. SoundFont GigaStudio, EXS, HALion, and S5000 files:
Drag and drop files from your hard drive to the Files to Convert area.
EIII, ESi, S1000, and S3000 files:
Press the “Add Button” below the Files to Convert area, then select the files from
your CD-ROM or hard disk.
2. Select a Destination location (Browse).
3. Press Convert. The File Converter does the rest, preserving loop, sample and preset
information.
4. Files may be removed from the Files to Convert area by first selecting them and
then clicking the Remove button.
• Overwrite Existing Files - Overwrites files with the same name in the Destination
folder.
Background
The Emulator X Converter is the result of over eight years of painstaking conversion
work, and piles of research on sampler behavior and performance. The conversions
into Emulator X will be of extremely high quality - so good that sometimes you won’t
even notice that you are using the sounds in a different sampler!
The Emulator X Converter is able to convert single files, multiple files, and entire disks
- and even more than one disk - simultaneously. Simply click the Add button, and a
customized file browsing dialog will appear.
From this dialog, simply choose disks, folders, or files you want to convert. You can
select single files by double-clicking on them, or by clicking on the dialogs Add button.
You can select multiple-selected files, or folders/disks, by selecting them and clicking
on the dialog’s Add button.
Remember that selecting a folder to translate includes not only all the files that are
immediately within that folder, but all files within all the folders within that folder. In
other words, it always recurses every relevant folder tree.
The objects you want to convert are added to the Converter Application’s object list.
They are not converted yet. You may add or delete from the list until you’re ready to
convert.
Also note that if you choose a folder of, say, EXS-24 files, they are entered into the
Converter Application list individually. You can see the name of the file and the path
that it exists in.
Source Format Information
The Emulator X Converter is able to browse any sort of disk, whether it is PCformatted,
Mac-formatted, or specially formatted for a specific sampler.
Below is helpful background on each source format, and some relevant details on how
their special features are exported into the Emulator X.
Akai S-1000/3000
The Akai S-1000 was one of the first hardware samplers using the 16-bit format. The
S-3000 came out a couple years afterward, offering expanded programming and
expanded structures.
The Akai format is proprietary; you cannot view the contents of the disk using the
standard file browsing mechanisms on a computer. There are files that can be written
E4/E3 Library CDs
use a proprietary format
and can only be read
using SCSI/ATAPI drives.
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